So today started out in the not-one-of-the-greatest-days-ever category until I was at school. I know, right? How can school make my day better? Every Wednesday my school has this thing called prayer meeting where anyone can sign up and we talk about God and learn about Him during homeroom. This always helps my day get going on Wednesday. But today God really had a message ready for me to hear. The message was about your worth and how much you think you’re worth and how much God thinks you’re worth. It was always hard for me to find any worth in myself. I constantly beat myself up emotionally. I wasn’t as pretty as her or as Godly as him. While in reality God never thought of me like that. He saw my flaws, but loved me anyway. He thinks I’M WORTH IT. I’m going to say that again. God thinks I’M WORTH IT.
What? How can that be? I’ve messed up so much, I can’t be worth that much. But let me give the example the speaker used today. If I was handing you a twenty dollar bill would you take it? Yes, you would because its worth twenty dollars. Okay, so what if I told you that the twenty dollar bill was used to buy drugs or a prostitute or that someone died over that twenty dollar bill, would you still want it? Yes, because it’s still worth twenty dollars. What if I stomped on it or tore it up and threw it away, would you still want it? Yes, because it’s STILL worth twenty dollars. That’s what God does for us. We could have done drugs, slept with our boyfriend or girlfriend, cheated on a test, watched pornography, but God STILL wants you. You are WORTH the death of His only son Jesus because you’re worth so much more than you could ever imagine. We tend to bring ourselves down by what we do wrong or by what people think of us. The reason that’s so wrong is they weren’t the ones who gave us the measurement of what value we are. A higher power did. Just like the twenty dollar bill. The government determined how much that twenty dollars is worth, so even if it’s all crumpled up, its value doesn’t change. It doesn’t lose value to where it’s only worth ten dollars. It’s still worth twenty dollars. That’s the same with us. God gave us a value and nothing can change the value of what God has given you. No matter all the bad you’ve done, even if it was this morning or last night, God still loves you.
This is something I struggle a lot with and if I’m being completely honest while on Pinterest this morning before this revelation I was pinning quotes saying how worthless I am. I felt like I didn’t amount to much. This had become a normal feeling for me. God woke me up this morning in a big way. I am worth more than I could ever imagine and I know I’m not the only one who struggles with this. God thinks you’re more than everything in this world and universe, and you, you are perfect.
